Rabbit Stew ?

Tanner did what Cody told him to do and took a deep breath and held it in. He held it and held it and held it until his face began to turn blue.

Shubi and the children made it back. If Tanner let his breath go, he thought they would be discovered for sure.

Shubi knew exactly what those two were up to. He told the kids to play along. They pretended they did not know Tanner and Cody were hiding or that Tanner was holding his breath.

“Let’s just sit here and take a rest,” Shubi told the children.

“Oh, No!” Tanner thought to himself. “Cody is going to be really mad at me if I let out this breath. But, I can not hold it much longer!”

“Well, kids, it seems that Tanner and Cody have left. We’ll just wait here for their return so I can go for help. You two just have a seat and relax for a while,” Shubi said as he winked at the children.

Shubi was expecting his friends to pull such a stunt. He knew those two would do anything to avoid children.

Jude and Lauren played along with Shubi and pretended not to see Tanner hiding behind the tree holding his breath. They acted like they didn’t know that Cody was hiding behind the rock wearing a bright yellow and purple helmet.

Then Jude had an idea about how to get Tanner out of hiding. He decided to play a funny trick on him.

“Okay, Shubi—I am a little tired and could use a rest,” Jude replied. “But, I sure am getting hungry. I haven’t eaten all day, and I didn’t have anything yesterday either. I would do anything right now for some rabbit stew!”

Jude was sure that would be enough to make Tanner take a breath. Lauren knew what her brother was up to, so she played along too. “Oh, that does sound good!” Lauren added.

The children both snickered to themselves as they waited to see what Tanner would do.

Shubi thought, “Oh, no! Tanner and Cody will never stay with the children now, but that was pretty funny!”

Shubi hopes for sustainable book printing in the future.

In observance on Earth Day, April 22,here is an interesting article on printing college textbooks and how the environment is affected.

College students purchase about a tree per year in textbooks

Purchasing your textbooks will not only burn a hole in your pocket, but it will also destroy the environment. According to the Green Press Initiative, over the past three years the U.S. book publishing industry has consumed an average of 20 million trees per year to print books sold in just the U.S alone. Publishing companies have become a top contributor to the destruction of forests world wide.

"The global impact of this is rather mind-boggling," says treehugger.com. For instance, if a publisher sells a million copies of a 250-page book it will take 12,000 trees just to produce the necessary amount of books for this one title. By producing new editions of Textbooks every year publishers are destroying the environment to fatten their pockets. Just think about the amount of trees killed to produce enough textbooks for every student at every college & University. It gets worse...

The Green Press Initiative estimates that nearly 40% of the materials found in landfills are paper products. As this paper degrades, it produces methane—a greenhouse gas with 21 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide that eats away at our atmosphere. Each time a student buys a new book they are contributing to these numbers. It's time to make a difference.

Chegg is working together with students and organizations to help improve our environment. Renting your textbooks helps keep books in circulation and ensures that one less new book will need to be printed this year. In addition, for every book a student rents, Chegg will plant a tree in their name. Together we can make a difference, one book at a time.

Chegg is proudly partnered with Eco-Libris

Source http://www.chegg.com/EcoFriendly

Shubi Broom is doing his part by offering his book, “The Amazing Shubi Bird” in a downloadable version for only 3.99. It contains 42 illustrations and 42 pages of easy to read text. Visit www.shubibroom.com today.

Friends of Feathers

Chapter Two

Friends of Feathers

As Shubi and the children were getting to know one another, Shubi asked about their parents.

The children were excited to tell Shubi that their dad was an engineer named Jeff, and their mom’s name was Gayle, but her students at school called her Mrs. Broom.

Shubi giggled. “Why do they call her Mrs. Broom? Does she like to sweep a lot?” Shubi asked.

Jude laughed and said, “Broom is our last name, but she does sweep a lot!”

Shubi started to chuckle as he realized that if they adopted him, his name would be Shubi Broom—he thought that was the cutest name he had ever heard!

This name made Shubi feel like being even sillier. “It’s perfect,” he thought. Meanwhile, Cody and Tanner saw them in the distance, and both became very nervous.

Tanner hid behind a tree where he thought no one could possibly see him. Cody put on his helmet to help protect him from the rocks that he thought would be thrown at him.

Almost every child that Tanner and Cody had ever met chased them and threw rocks at them. They were worried that these children would do the same.

Cody was very angry with Shubi for bringing the children back with him. “This is just the meanest thing he’s ever done to me!” Cody thought to himself as he hid behind a rock.

“I’m ready,” whispered Cody to Tanner. “They’re almost here. If we stay perfectly still and very quiet, maybe they won’t notice us and will keep walking.”

“Do not sneeze. Do not cough. Do not hum. Do not whistle. Do not make any noise at all,” Cody ordered. “Do not dance. Do not bounce. Do not move!”

“Can I breathe?” Tanner asked.

“No,” Cody answered, “That will make too much noise. We must be perfectly still and make no noise at all so they do not know we are here. You are a noisy breather.”

As Shubi and the children got closer and closer, Cody and Tanner became more afraid.

“Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen”

“Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,” Shubi said upon landing, as he took a bow.

The children jumped up and down, cheering and clapping their hands with excitement.

“We had better get to a safer place so I can go for help,” Shubi told the children. “Let’s go!”

They began to head back to Tanner and Cody, where the children could stay while Shubi went for help.

Shubi gave the children a friendly reminder to be very kind to Tanner and Cody because they were afraid of children. He knew that his friends would love the children once they got to know them.

Shubi saves the day!

The children were so relieved that Shubi had saved them. They watched Shubi chase the scared lion far away. It was the funniest thing they had ever seen!

The lion ran very fast and Shubi flew just as fast right behind him, roaring all the way.

Shubi loved any chance he got to pretend to be a bear. He giggled between every roar. Finally, he decided that he should get back to the children.

Flying around in a big circle, Shubi turned back to the children. Jude and Lauren were still laughing as they waited for his return.

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Shubi scares away the Mountain Lion

Suddenly, as the mountain lion was about to pounce on the children, he was startled by an earth-shaking roar! The lion was too afraid to look behind him because he just knew it was a huge bear. A bear much bigger than he!

The lion thought he was the one in serious trouble then, and must run away as fast as he could!

Jude and Lauren could not believe it! Shubi came back to save them! It was true that Shubi could indeed growl like a bear! He really was The Amazing Shubi Bird!

Now the children knew that everything would be just fine. If Shubi could protect them from a lion, he could surely help them find their way back home.